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KNEE PUSH [5 records]

Record 1 2011-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weightlifting
  • Physical Fitness Training and Bodybuilding
CONT

Split jerk instructions.... Inhale and position chest high with torso tight. Keeping pressure on heels, dip body by bending knees and ankles slightly. Explosively drive upward with legs, driving barbell up off shoulders. Drop body downward and split one foot forward and other backward as fast as possible while vigorously extending arms overhead. The split position places front shin vertical to floor with front foot flat on floor. The rear knee is slightly bent with rear foot positioned on toes. The bar should be positioned directly over ears at arms length with back straight. Push up with both legs. Position feet side by side by bringing front foot back partway and then rear foot forward. Return to shoulders and repeat.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Haltérophilie
  • Conditionnement physique et culturisme

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Halterofilia
  • Acondicionamiento físico y culturismo
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Record 2 2005-08-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
  • Wood Sawing
CONT

The knee-bolter was a steel topped table on a track, with a wide slot in the front to admit the knee-bolter saw. The top of the table was level with the deck so the operator stood in a hole... The saw was vertical and was sixty inches in diameter, ran at 600 RPM and had sixty large, mean-looking, inserted teeth. The table had an arm that stuck out to fit between the operator's legs, hence the name "knee bolter. "The operator would wrestle the block onto the table, and, with his legs, push table and block into the saw, rotating the block so as to peel off the bark. If there was a large knot in the block, he would saw directly through it, so the knot would be the part of the block that would necessarily be wasted in the final cutting of the shingles.

Key term(s)
  • knee bolter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Sciage du bois
OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-03-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline
OBS

Lift arms overhead while simultaneously lifting left leg. Step forward onto left foot... and bend left knee. Place hands on mat in front of shoulders. Swing right leg... backward and upward. Immediately follow with a strong push from foot of left leg. Eyes spot mat about ten inches in front of hands. As soon as body is almost inverted, switch legs and come to a stand on the right foot.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline
CONT

Au passage à l'appui tendu renversé, les jambes, le tronc et les bras sont alignés, le bassin est fixé en rétroversion. La tête doit être le plus possible dans l'alignement de la colonne vertébrale : droite, elle permet un meilleur alignement bras/tronc, légèrement relevée, elle permet une information visuelle plus précise pour la stabilisation.

OBS

[...] cet élément gymnique consiste, depuis la station debout, à venir à la station renversée sur les bras. [...] la gymnaste se penche en avant et pose ses mains au sol, pousse et tend la jambe avant en lançant la jambe arrière vers le haut. La jambe de poussée rejoint l'autre jambe et la gymnaste s'établit à l'appui renversé sur les mains.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gimnasia y acrobacias sobre cama elástica
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Record 4 1996-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Gymnastics and Trampoline

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gymnastique et trampoline

Spanish

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Record 5 1979-06-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ice Hockey
OBS

one skate backward stop.(...) ii) as the one skate is quickly rotated outward, the other is lifted from the ice surface, and the entire body is turned sideways, iii) again note the extensive flexion in the knee; this allows the skater to push against the ice, causing the force necessary to make the stop(...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hockey sur glace
OBS

arrêt arrière sur un patin. (...) ii) lorsqu'un patin est en rotation rapide vers l'extérieur, l'autre est soulevé de la glace et tout le corps pivote sur le côté, iii) noter encore la grande flexion du genou; elle permet au patineur d'exercer sur la glace une pression suffisante pour exécuter son arrêt.

Spanish

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